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DVDs weren't out yet, so please ignore my box set
The hundred movies meme was even harder to assemble because I spent far more of my childhood and adolescence immersed in books than in movies and therefore many of the films on this list were not so much formative as illuminating once I finally started paying attention to cinema as an art form, and/or they wired themselves instantly into my brain and are quoted regularly to this day. A list of favorites might overlap significantly but not identically, I imagine tilting more heavily toward sff and noir. I feel it may be a much more mainstream list than my formative books, although still full of meaningful absences. (I sacrificed a number of classics as well as movies whose circumstances were potentially more important than their content, but just glitched on The Medium (1951) and Katerina Izmailova (1966), both of which I even own.) I find it very difficult to try to winnow accurately. I may just not be designed for this format of meme.
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Yet another for the list!
It just seems like a really distinctive conceit and almost unsearchable! I'll let you know if I run across anything that sounds possible.
Thank you. (I feel like it was a UK thing, but I can't remember enough to swear to anything - yet I think what I recall was v working class family life. It was in colour. I don't remember feeling that it seemed an old film. I got the impression the teacher had obtained something too new to be properly out or something maybe.)
Just because he has a lot of tableau-like visuals! Prospero's Books (1991) is very much in this style and I also like it.
It sounds interesting! (Ironically enough, I loved the tableaux at our Carnival, but then people standing stock still in highly dramatic poses on a carnival cart to music for hours is a tricky feat, whereas I feel like actors should move and talk, not stand around in beautifully framed positions for more than is natural, lol.)
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I need a month to do nothing but sleep and write about movies and I just don't see one in my future.
(I feel like it was a UK thing, but I can't remember enough to swear to anything - yet I think what I recall was v working class family life. It was in colour. I don't remember feeling that it seemed an old film. I got the impression the teacher had obtained something too new to be properly out or something maybe.)
Well, the internet immediately tried to recommend me Stephen Poliakoff's Shooting the Past (1999), which doesn't sound at all like it, but I like Lindsay Duncan and Timothy Spall.
It sounds interesting!
I saw it once double-featured with Derek Jarman's The Tempest (1979)! This was an inspiration on the part of the Brattle Theatre and also hilarious.
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*hugs* You should have one! Even if, yeah, reality does not seem likely to oblige.
Well, the internet immediately tried to recommend me Stephen Poliakoff's Shooting the Past (1999), which doesn't sound at all like it, but I like Lindsay Duncan and Timothy Spall.
No, it definitely isn't, but that sounds amazing! *adds it to list* I've been looking at the BBC Poliakoff collection for ages but I didn't know if I'd get on with him, but now I've seen and loved Glorious 39, I should see if it's still affordable, even if it doesn't include The Tribe. (The one BBC Poliakoff you can't get this side of the ocean for reasons that afaict have more to do with ridiculous tabloid excitement over Anna Friel's nude scene than anything else; it's v annoying as it's my most significant omission from Jeremy Northam's CV at the mo.)
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It does! I look forward to hearing your librarian's verdict on it.
I've been looking at the BBC Poliakoff collection for ages but I didn't know if I'd get on with him, but now I've seen and loved Glorious 39, I should see if it's still affordable, even if it doesn't include The Tribe. (The one BBC Poliakoff you can't get this side of the ocean for reasons that afaict have more to do with ridiculous tabloid excitement over Anna Friel's nude scene than anything else; it's v annoying as it's my most significant omission from Jeremy Northam's CV at the mo.)
I assume this partitioned version on YouTube will not play in your region? I can immediately see it's got a Jeremy Northam.
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I will let you know if I do!
Btw, googling has at least informed me that the style that I can't cope with is called Tableaux Vivant, which is a snappier way to complain about it when I need to. XD (Although not all Tableaux Vivant etc etc.)
I assume this partitioned version on YouTube will not play in your region? I can immediately see it's got a Jeremy Northam.
Oh, thanks! It still has Pt 5 missing in this region, but there's a lot more of it there and visible than I've seen on any previous searches. I think only a few bits of that were visible last time. (I'm protesting to the BBC by sulking silently until they osmose my need for a dvd. I should probably find out what it's called in German. They might have one. Or the Dutch or the Italians; that's usually the trick, but sometimes you do need to know the actual title in different languages to find it, which isn't always easy, especially with TV.)
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You're welcome! I'm sorry about Part 5! This upload should be the full film, although it makes you sign in for it.
(I'm protesting to the BBC by sulking silently until they osmose my need for a dvd. I should probably find out what it's called in German. They might have one. Or the Dutch or the Italians; that's usually the trick, but sometimes you do need to know the actual title in different languages to find it, which isn't always easy, especially with TV.)
Every time you mention this necesssity, it seems an extraordinary runaround to get hold of a television production in its own country, but good luck!
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Oh, thanks! <3 I have obviously not been searching for it lately. Or last time I did, I was still holding out for a DVD maybe. Oh, and, look, this one doesn't even have that YT commenter who seems dedicated to registering their anger over Jeremy Northam not doing full frontal nudity in this all over the site. (It cracks me up because if they were that exercised about it, there are other things they could have watched, ahem ahem, even if only very briefly and in a low light. The man takes off his clothes a lot. Me, I'm petitioning for more full period dress and a hat, preferably, to be worn at all times, but absolutely no fake hair. Maybe I should run round YT going BAD ACTOR, NO CLOTHES!! XD)
It is the week for random YT discoveries, because just before my family arrived, I chanced on a channel that had the 1955 BBC locked-in-the-archives-only Othello starring Gordon Heath here. It also features a wee James Maxwell as Roderigo, who will, I gather, courtesy of the BNA accidentally injure Patrick Wymark for real during the recording. This is the youngest I have ever seen him in action. He has a terrible fake beard, of course. (I poked around a bit further and it seems to have been originally posted 2 years ago by some sort of Preservation of Media channel, but I had just followed this one for having other old TV on it and thing I had never even dreamed of looking for just appeared!)
Every time you mention this necesssity, it seems an extraordinary runaround to get hold of a television production in its own country, but good luck!
It feels like something that would have a release somewhere!
The Dutch in particular are very helpfully fond of Brit TV. I'd never have even seen Shadow of the Tower without them! But I've had quite a few things from various countries when the UK hasn't done a release. R2 is much more divided by nation and language than R1, so it's not quite as weird as it sounds, but it can be frustrating to work out how to find if there is one, because of course, titles, are not always straightforward translations, and I have to double check it's the original English soundtrack and not dubbed over, but most things are.
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Through an advertisement for an intriguing-sounding restoration I can't get to see, I fell down a rabbit hole of reading about British avant-garde cinema and there are a number of films which make use of tableau and portraiture mentioned in this reference work. David Finch's Stone Steps (1992) sounded a little like what you were describing. Anne Rees-Mogg's Grandfather's Footsteps (1983) sounded too Victorian.
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It does look something like it, although at only 21 minutes, it definitely can't be. But I appreciate you keeping an eye out for me! You never know. It must exist! It probably fails to be quite like what I'm describing in some factor or other, no doubt, but I feel I would know it if I saw it.